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Previously November 29, 2012 – January 20, 2013

Contemporary Arts Center and PhotoNOLA present

Priya Kambli: Color Falls Down

Art Lab Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 1, 6-8pm
Artist Talk & Book Signing: Sunday, Dec 2, 1pm

Priya Kambli – Me (Polpat and Turmeric)

Priya Kambli was born and raised in India, and moved to the United States at the age of eighteen, carrying her entire life in one suitcase. Pairing customs reminiscent of a different place and time with her contemporary American life, Kambli foregrounds the ideas of displacement through storytelling. Kambli’s photographic language consists of entangled autobiographical artifacts that carry diverse temporal and cultural meanings. In front of the camera, Kambli dually performs her ancestors’ histories, as well as her own in attempts to journal what it means for her to be bicultural. She shuffles all of these journeyed objects—including her representation of self—to form a family tree of disjointed stories. The juxtapositions of old and new bridge gaps in time and space, transforming the artist’s attachment to the past and present.



Priya Kambli – Dada Aajooba and Muma

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Thanks to the following for supporting the CAC’s new 2012 First Floor Initiative: Best Buy, Corporate Realty, Edward Wisner Donation Fund/City of New Orleans, Ella West Freeman Foundation, Greater New Orleans Foundation, Nola Paint and Supplies, Selley Foundation, Mike & Aimée Siegel, SPUN Cafe at CAC

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Visual Arts programs of the Contemporary Arts Center are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation. Programming at the CAC is supported in part by our Business Arts Fund Members: Arthur Roger Gallery; Callan Contemporary; Hunt Telecom, LLC; The Law Offices of Matt Greenbaum; LeMieux Galleries; Merrill Lynch; Mignon Faget, Ltd. and Modern Market.

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